Demonstrating the new Supra-E AOI system at Nepcon China 2009 in Shanghai

Shanghai, P.R.C – Machine Vision Products today announced the recently introduced new Supra-E AOI will be demonstrated at Booth 4F18 at Nepcon China 2009 in Shanghai from Apr 21^st to April 24^th.

With the introduction of the Supra-E, Machine Vision Products brings a high performance solution at a highly competitive price point. Combined with revolutionary ease-of-use wizard, iPro, the Supra-E will set the standard for cost effective, yet performance driven AOI.

Redefining the cost and performance ratio of AOI, Machine Vision Products, the Supra-E is configured as standard with a 5 megapixel camera with Tri-Color illumination. With resolutions between 7-17um this system is capable of inspecting 01005 components down to solder joint level. Capable of a board handling of 508x508mm (20x20 inches), this system is ideal for low to high volume and low to high mix environments.

The Supra-E is flexible to meet all traditional AOI inspection needs and can be placed at any position in the production line without the need for configuration changes.

Dr George T. Ayoub commented “With the growing demand on the SMT and Semicon/Packaging process inspection in Asia, the introduction of the price competitive Supra-E and the recently announced Ultra IV, we believe that our AOI solutions are best of breed for price and performance. Our ease-of-use iPro software platform has revolutionized our customer’s perception of rules based AOI systems allowing our customers to achieve programming times within 10-90 minutes with a high degree of confidence in the performance of our AOI systems.

Machine Vision Products is a global company which recently celebrated its 15^th consecutive year of service to the industry and we have a world class direct global support operation. Early this year we have invested in a new sales and support branch office in Penang, Malaysia and a sales office in Australia. Subsequent projects will be Korea and Vietnam market in our Asia Pacific region.

We lead the market in cost of ownership due to the high level of research and development invested into our AOI systems. We continue to lead the Asia AOI market with robust, performance driven and flexible AOI solutions

All of our AOI solutions have been designed to be placed at any point in the production process. Our robust solutions are renowned for their minimal maintenance requirements and longevity”